[expert] Dual athlon problem with kernel >2.2
Hi, We're running Mandrake 8.1 on a dual Athlon 1600+ (1.4GHz) Asustek A7M266-D board. Installation seemd to go okay but when we try the enterprise (2.4.8-26) or smp kernel (2.4.8-34.1) the machine hangs at two different stages during the boot process. Sometimes it hangs at the IO-APIC test and sometimes it gets past this and hangs a few lines later after printing stuff about CPU0. The up kernel (2.4.8-26) works fine. We also have no success with the 2.4.18 smp kernel. We DO have success with the older 2.2.19-20.1 smp kernel! Does anybody have any idea what changed from 2.2 to 2.4 that would cause this sort of problem and how to fix it? Is there simply something I need to compile into or remove from the kernel? Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Thanks. Paul Fotheringham Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Dual athlon problem with kernel >2.2
Hi there, I have now managed to resolve a problem that I originally emailed to the list about a year ago and thought, for the sake of completeness, I would give the solution. The original email is appended below and was about the failure of 2.4 series kernels to boot properly on an Asus A7M266-D motherboard. The solution is to disable MPS 1.4 Support in the BIOS. Not sure what that does but it fixes the problem. The reason I came across it is that I upgraded to Mandrake 9.0 by doing a fresh install, the only problem being that the installer hung right away. I guess it must be based on the 2.4 kernel whereas the 8.1 installer (which worked) was based on 2.2? Paul. --- ORIGINAL MESSAGE --- Hi, We're running Mandrake 8.1 on a dual Athlon 1600+ (1.4GHz) Asustek A7M266-D board. Installation seemd to go okay but when we try the enterprise (2.4.8-26) or smp kernel (2.4.8-34.1) the machine hangs at two different stages during the boot process. Sometimes it hangs at the IO-APIC test and sometimes it gets past this and hangs a few lines later after printing stuff about CPU0. The up kernel (2.4.8-26) works fine. We also have no success with the 2.4.18 smp kernel. We DO have success with the older 2.2.19-20.1 smp kernel! Does anybody have any idea what changed from 2.2 to 2.4 that would cause this sort of problem and how to fix it? Is there simply something I need to compile into or remove from the kernel? Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Thanks. Paul Fotheringham --- END ORIGINAL MESSAGE --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Dual athlon problem with kernel >2.2
On Monday 02 December 2002 07:48 pm, Paul Fotheringham scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal pad: > The solution is to disable MPS 1.4 Support in the BIOS. Not sure what that Would that be "Multi Processor Specification"? http://www.uruk.org/~erich/mps.html It seems like an APIC issue. I had severe IRQ and stability problems with a TYAN MP2466 dual Athlon board that seem to have been resolved with the recent cooker kernels. -- Hoyt http://www.MaximumHoyt.com/ "Fix it until it breaks." Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Dual athlon problem with kernel >2.2
I would be interested if anybody has a solution to this as well. This configuration (2xAthMP & Asus A7M-D) is exactly what I am considering building in the next week or so. One thing I did read a while ago was a bug with AMD's handling of the AGP; something to do with 4kB/4MB mapping? The "usual" configuration (ie intel) assumed that 4MB blocks where being used, but AMD was still using the original 4kB ones. ...this is OTOH, I think a kernal patch was discussed at the time (about a month or two back). Si. simon watts. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Dual athlon problem with kernel >2.2
I haven't the opportunity to meet a dual mobo AMD yet. However I've been so dissapointed with last Asus mobo in general that I wouldn't recommed it. I suggest you a MSI or a Soyo solution (when available, after feedback of course). Tyan has problems too, but it was the first one, so maybe people know it better. On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Simon A Watts wrote: > I would be interested if anybody has a solution to this as well. This > configuration (2xAthMP & Asus A7M-D) is exactly what I am considering > building in the next week or so. > > One thing I did read a while ago was a bug with AMD's handling of the AGP; > something to do with 4kB/4MB mapping? The "usual" configuration (ie intel) > assumed that 4MB blocks where being used, but AMD was still using the > original 4kB ones. ...this is OTOH, I think a kernal patch was discussed at > the time (about a month or two back). > > Si. > > simon watts. > > > -- --- Alan Wilter S. da Silva --- Laboratório de Física Biológica Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho Universidade do Brasil/UFRJ Rio de Janeiro, Brasil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Dual athlon problem with kernel >2.2
I installed MDK 8.1 on a dual AMD athlon 1900+ asus mainboard with a geforce video board and an adaptec 29160 64bit without any problem at all. On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 19:13, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: I haven't the opportunity to meet a dual mobo AMD yet. However I've been so dissapointed with last Asus mobo in general that I wouldn't recommed it. I suggest you a MSI or a Soyo solution (when available, after feedback of course). Tyan has problems too, but it was the first one, so maybe people know it better. On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Simon A Watts wrote: > I would be interested if anybody has a solution to this as well. This > configuration (2xAthMP & Asus A7M-D) is exactly what I am considering > building in the next week or so. > > One thing I did read a while ago was a bug with AMD's handling of the AGP; > something to do with 4kB/4MB mapping? The "usual" configuration (ie intel) > assumed that 4MB blocks where being used, but AMD was still using the > original 4kB ones. ...this is OTOH, I think a kernal patch was discussed at > the time (about a month or two back). > > Si. > > simon watts. > > > -- --- Alan Wilter S. da Silva --- Laboratório de Física Biológica Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho Universidade do Brasil/UFRJ Rio de Janeiro, Brasil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Alberto Passariello Byte Works Sistemi S.r.l. Cisco Systems partner Premier certified Viale Liegi 44, 00198 Roma Tel: +39 6 863.863.22 Fax: +39 6 863.863.23 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---
